Washington County News | 1924-10-09 | Page 1 | Your Duty

YOUR DUTY Our forefathers fought ngain-t taxation without representation. We would fight today if any foreign or domestic force should attempt to deprive de-prive u.-. of the ballot. Yet. in the last president ial election only 49 per cent eligible citizens voted, and in many primary elections less than 25 per lent ca.-t their ballots. This indifference in-difference to one of our fundament;! civic duties is a menace to representative representa-tive government . Those who d -liberately disfranchise themselves at e unworthy of cit izcnsh ip.